Fireside Chat Ep. 252 — Has Feminism Ruined Work? | Fireside Chat

Hey everybody, Dennis Prager here with Fireside Chat number 251. 252. All right. So Megan, Megan2, picked out an interesting tweet that I'd like to comment on. Am I the only one that sees a problem with working 8 to 9 hours a day and then going home to having about 4 hours to yourself, which includes getting ready for the next day? This is not life. Ellipsis. Dot, dot, dot. Then to be married and have kids on top, on top is capitalized, of all of that, wild. No wonder people are depressed and going through it. That's too much to handle. Prior to modern feminism, most women's work was the home. And then feminism came along and said, that is demeaning work. Going to an office, that's elevating, ennobling, worthwhile, purposeful. Just being a mother and a wife, making a home for your children and your husband, oh my God, that's lower than being a cheerleader, which feminism has never looked highly upon because they cheer for men, generally speaking. Anyway, back to the issue. I read Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, sort of the initiating text, the sacred text of modern feminism. I think she wrote it in the 50s. I just read it last year. It was about as depressing a book as I recall reading, and how awful it is for women. They're not taken seriously. They're expected to be mothers and wives. So now we have this young woman who's not a mother and not a wife, and complaining about going to work eight or nine hours, which means nine to five or nine to six, which is the normal workday. What do you think men have been doing all of these years? Going to work eight to nine hours, and then coming home, and then getting ready for the next day. But they didn't complain about it as much, because they assumed that this was what men do. Men work hard, and then they have a weekend. So that's not all that bad. And not only that, prior to feminism, they found phenomenal meaning in supporting a family. Men will dig ditches if they know that it takes care of a wife and children. That is what gives us a tremendous amount of meaning, and meaning is everything in life. So with all of the talk about feminism, feminism, and feminism having elevated women's lives, this question seems to betray that it hasn't done such a great job. Big Tech censorship continues to be a big challenge for PragerU, and it's more important than ever that our audience watches our content on our platform. To continue watching this episode of the Fireside Chat, go to PragerU.com today.